One Man's Fight for Free Software, an article about Richard
Stallman and the early GNU development, published at The
New York Times on January 11, 1989. One problem with the
article is that it uses the propaganda term “intellectual
property” as if that referred to something coherent. The
term is such a confusion that talking about it makes no sense. The article
is also somewhat confused in regard to Symbolics. What Stallman
did, while still working at MIT, was to write, independently,
replacement improvements comparable to the improvements that
Symbolics made in its version of the MIT Lisp Machine
System.